Circular Fisheye
$299.95
Description
Redefine distortion and extend your vision to a 185 degree field of view—beyond what the eye can see. The Circular Fisheye lens brings out your warped side, shaping twisted images with polished focus as close as ¼-inch from the front. Create architecture shots with unique flare, and turn shots in tight spaces into contorted masterpieces. Go crazy. Seriously.
Optimized for APS-C sensor DSLRs. (Produces a smaller image circle on full frame DSLRs. View Full Frame Circular Fisheye Images.)
Circular Fisheye
This is an absolutely delightful addition to my lens collection! As the other review indicated, one tricky part is to make sure that you don’t get your own shirt or shoes in the edge of the photo, it’s SUPER wide. I was doing a corporate shoot where they were looking for some really unusual, creative images. I pulled this out and produced some shots from the factory where I was shooting, and they absolutely adored the images. Any $300 lens that can make a corporate client excited about the images produced is an absolute win!
The lens is manual focus, and manual aperture adjustment, but don’t let that scare you off – especially since the lens is super wide angle, the focus isn’t all that fussy to begin with. My favorite way of focusing with it is to pop into Live View, magnify all the way, then focus using the LCD screen on the camera. That gives you a great sense of where your focus is set, and it’s a super-easy workflow.
This is an ideal lens to get some really unusual/creative wide angle images at just about any session. I would tend to think of this more as a landscape/nature lens than a portrait lens, simply because of the amount of distortion, but it would be a really fun lens to pull out for dancing at a wedding, or any other large group setting.
Love it!!!
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Perfect for the little extra
I use this lens for fun shots to complement a session. It can be a full view of the area where I’ve been taking pictures (I tend to focus on details in nature rather than landscapes), or simply the same motives from a different point of view. I use it on a fullframe camera, and get the full circle with flares and all. Absolutely love that effect! With such a wide angle of view, the challenge is to avoid getting in the frame yourself.
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